Kurt Huffman, the prominent Portland restaurateur who expanded to Seattle last year with Miller's Guild steakhouse, plans to open a new events space and restaurant in San Francisco, The Oregonian has learned.

The 12,000-square foot project, still unnamed, will feature a 400-500 person events space with on-site catering, a rooftop bar, a new restaurant as well as space for a small-batch distillery run by Napa Valley Distillery.

"Dog Patch is turning into this artisan area, with cheese shops and
breweries; it has that semi-industrial feel that's about to get a huge
wave of development on a scale that we haven't seen (in Portland) since
the Pearl District," says Huffman, whose ChefStable-backed Portland restaurants include Ox, Lardo and Oven & Shaker. "There's so much wealth in S.F.,
developing 40 square blocks of the city can actually happen."